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🇳🇮Nicaragua · Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke Whitaker · Day 5 · 4 sentences

• This is critical to address poverty and to live in dignity, freedom and fraternity. 4:36:52Copy
• We bring to this forum of all peoples and states of the world the legitimate aspiration of families from the entire world, and in particular in Nicaragua, to live peacefully and safely, to strengthen the work that will allow all of us to establish better societies, to defeat extreme poverty, to live in harmony and in complementarity, which is so critical to allow all societies to progress, and so that also we can care for and increase our resources and natural riches, which will be of benefit to everyone. 4:36:58Copy
• We need to defeat extreme poverty. 4:38:04Copy
• We would like to recognize and pay tribute to all brothers and sisters throughout the world who believe in ideals, principles and values that are valuable to us all as humanity, to continue moving towards achieving the most important significant battle, which is to achieve peace so that we can defeat poverty once and for all. 4:39:44Copy

🇺🇸United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 3 sentences

• Last week, it was announced that the poverty rate has reached its lowest level in American history. 1:47:34Copy
• We lifted 1.5 million Americans out of poverty last year alone, another record. 1:47:41Copy
• The African American and Hispanic American poverty rates are at all-time lows. 1:47:48Copy

🇵🇾Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 3 sentences

• and it has become an example to other countries of macroeconomic stability, sustained growth and poverty reduction. 2:03:39Copy
• Paraguay has reduced poverty to levels never seen before. 2:04:17Copy
• In less than 20 years, we have brought the poverty rate down from 58% to 16%, faster than any other country in the region. 2:04:22Copy

🇺🇾Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 3 sentences

• When a people is displaced, when a family loses its home, when young people can see no way out and their mental health is under threat, When a child grows up under the sound of gunfire, when millions of people live in poverty or without any opportunities, we can't stand indifferent to that. 3:51:06Copy
• Poverty continues to deprive millions of people of basic opportunities and wars continue to destroy lives, communities and hopes. 3:54:18Copy
• We could accept war as something permanent, accept poverty as our fate. 3:58:12Copy

🇲🇽Mexico · Roberto Velasco Álvarez · Day 4 · 3 sentences

• The first is the reduction of poverty. 10:53:47Copy
• Between 2018 and 2024, more than 13 million people were lifted out of poverty in Mexico, the most significant reduction in the history of our country. 10:53:49Copy
• It's also important to underscore that in 2025, we had the lowest in poverty rate in our history. 10:53:58Copy

🇬🇹Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 3 sentences

• In the face of these realities, the fundamental principles that must guide our collective action have lost none of their relevance: preserving peace, Combating hunger and poverty, ensuring equal rights and opportunities, strengthening justice, protecting our planet, and consolidating democratic institutions remain shared responsibilities. 12:01:09Copy
• When a family is protected from poverty, when a child learns in a decent school, when a woman lives free from violence, when a community is no longer isolated, and when a young person can envision a future without being forced to leave their country. 12:03:15Copy
• The intersectional Mano a Mano strategy brings together health, education, housing, nutrition, and community development to address poverty at the local level. 12:03:41Copy

🇲🇼Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 3 sentences

• True freedom cannot exist in condition of extreme poverty and systemic economic exclusion. 2:25:15Copy
• Global resources currently being funneled into destructive warfare should instead be redirected towards eradicating poverty, building schools and financing sustainable development. 2:26:06Copy
• Let us build a United Nations that delivers wealth instead of poverty, resilience instead of vulnerability, and peace instead of conflict, a United Nation that truly delivers for all. 2:29:50Copy

🇨🇱Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• In the Latin American context, in which many nations were facing inflation crises and external debt, Chile distinguished itself because it continued to show fiscal responsibility, display high rates of growth and poverty reduction. 4:42:29Copy
• Wars do not only drain the blood of those that fight them, they plunge people into poverty. 4:53:26Copy

🇫🇮Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• Since the establishment of the United Nations, poverty has declined, Access to basic education has expanded, literacy has increased, and child mortality has fallen. 5:11:56Copy
• Poverty and distress are still widespread. 5:12:18Copy

🇩🇴Dominican Republic · Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• We've reduced monetary poverty by 25.8% from 25.8% in 2019 to 14.6% in the first six months of this year. 4:33:57Copy
• Middle-income countries host three in every four people on the planet and two in every three people in extreme poverty. 4:35:29Copy

🇪🇨Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• And today we are experiencing a crisis, a profound crisis, and recovering security means giving people about their future for a young person to be able to choose university rather than being trapped by a criminal gang for a family to open a business without fear for a company to invest and create jobs and for institutions to respond to the needs of citizens and not to elicit interests therefore the success of an economy is not measured only by how much production grows but rather how much is able to reduce poverty is measured in young people with decent jobs and children with a better education, and citizens who are able to build their future with dignity. 5:01:09Copy
• When a producer can export, innovate and grow, there's a family behind that can be lifted out of poverty. 5:02:21Copy

🇪🇹Ethiopia · Taye Atske-Selassie Amde · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• The United Nations has achieved remarkable victories against extreme poverty, but it has never been enough. 6:31:39Copy
• Poverty and systemic inequality also fuel ecological and environmental crisis. 6:32:16Copy

🇳🇦Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• This will accelerate sustainable development, address inequality, create jobs for our youth, and lift our population out of poverty. 7:16:42Copy
• As a result of this fund, young people have set up their own medical practice, law firms milling plants, pottery business, to mention a few, thus contributing to job creation and poverty eradication. 7:25:06Copy

🇪🇺European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• Because the best argument for multilateralism is what it delivers on peace and security with the Treaty of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, on climate action with the Paris Agreement, on poverty and health with the global response to COVID-19. 4:06:47Copy
• The EU and its Member States together represent more than 40% of official development assistance at the global level and through our Global Gateway initiative, we are investing in all fields, connectivity, health, education and eradication of poverty. 4:16:28Copy

🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea · Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• Excellencies, when the 2030 Agenda was adopted, the world embraced its deeply human vision, eradicating poverty, protecting the planet, and making sure that all people can live with dignity, leaving no one behind. 4:22:27Copy
• Poverty persists, inequality is expanding, and climate change continues to rage. 4:23:03Copy

🇬🇪Georgia · Irakli Kobakhidzhe · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• Strong economic performance must translate into tangible social outcomes, higher output per person, rising real wages, declining poverty, better employment opportunities, and greater economic resilience. 9:26:50Copy
• We are already seeing these outcomes reflected in measurable improvements, including a triple decline in Georgia's poverty rate, which dropped from 21.3% to 7.1% since 2020. 9:27:03Copy

🇿🇦South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• This extreme concentration of wealth at the top and poverty at the bottom is neither inevitable nor insurmountable. 12:01:11Copy
• These critical minerals can help bridge the gap between wealth and poor nations and overcome the indignities of poverty and underdevelopment. 12:05:57Copy

🇲🇷Mauritania · Mohamed Salem Merzoug · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• We try to promote the synergies and develop our economies to limit poverty and provide the basic services to the most needy. 10:34:32Copy
• Our approach addresses the hiking prices, confronting any threats to the security or terrorism, while tackling also vulnerability and poverty. 10:35:57Copy

🇨🇻Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 2 sentences

• Perhaps this is an ability that the world must rediscover, the ability to learn from history, to learn from one another, and to understand that there can be no less in development without peace, just as there can be no less in peace where poverty, exclusion, and lack of opportunity persists. 1:18:24Copy
• Learning today also means Understanding that educating a child, providing opportunities for young people, protecting our planet, fighting poverty, promoting development, and building peace are not separate missions. 1:26:51Copy

🇱🇦Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Thongsavanh Phomvihane · Day 5 · 2 sentences

• Third, improving living standard, ensuring balanced urban rural development and alleviating poverty. 2:12:59Copy
• Our presidency demonstrated that mine action is an indispensable foundation for poverty reduction, human dignity and sustainable development. 2:17:23Copy

🇹🇳Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 2 sentences

• Rather, it means ensuring that everyone benefits from the UN system while directing greater support and attention to those in greatest need and to the peoples and countries facing war, poverty, marginalization, and the effects of global crisis. 6:06:55Copy
• Guided by its firm belief in the importance of investing in people, Tunisia once again calls for a comprehensive and balanced approach to migration that takes into account its human and historical dimensions and moves beyond a narrow security perspective while addressing its root causes, foremost among them conflict, poverty, economic and social disparities. 6:07:36Copy

🇩🇰Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 2 sentences

• More than a billion people lifted out of poverty, standards of living transformed, colonial empires brought to an end, independent nations emerged, peoples gained the right to shape their own future. 5:48:54Copy
• Extreme poverty is on the rise. 5:49:27Copy

🇧🇷Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Initiatives such as the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, Launched by Brazil and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Inequality, launched by South Africa's team from this political will, Brazil is in a hurry to become a developed and socially fair nation. 1:37:16Copy

🇰🇷Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• These words of the second Secretary-General of the UN, Dag Hammarskjold, compel us to ask ourselves: Is the United Nations today capable of saving humanity from war, poverty, and disaster? 7:03:42Copy

🇸🇱Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Across West Africa and the Sahel, terrorism feeds on poverty, exclusion, unemployment, and weak institutions. 7:43:34Copy

🇩🇲Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• The SDGs represented a promise that by 2040, we would make meaningful progress in ending poverty and hunger, improving health and education, advancing equality, protecting our planet, and building more peaceful and inclusive societies. 8:36:29Copy

🇻🇳Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• We stand ready to share our experience in poverty reduction, agricultural development, and climate change adaptation to work with partners to broaden cooperation for common interest. 9:38:45Copy

🇯🇵Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Since becoming a member state of the United Nations in 1956, Japan has acted decisively to address global challenges such as eradication of poverty, economic and social development, women's empowerment, climate change, and global health. 10:47:08Copy

🇦🇷Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• We managed poverty, we managed isolation, we managed irrelevance. 2:28:00Copy

🇱🇾Libya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• That threat stems from the nexus of terrorism, organized crime, poverty, climate change, displacement, and migration, and from the widening of the cycle of armed conflict in the region. 3:31:37Copy

🇸🇿Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Yet, at a time when conflicts persist, inequalities deepen, climate-related disasters intensify, and countless communities continue to struggle against poverty and insecurity, the international community must renew its commitment to global cooperation. 9:22:13Copy

🇻🇪Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Our second unwavering stance, inclusive development with social justice to alleviate poverty and mitigate the suffering of hundreds of millions of people that are primarily located in the global south. 10:27:04Copy

🇷🇼Rwanda · Justin Nsengiyumva · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• It also means addressing the conditions that leave countries vulnerable to poverty, economic shocks, and exclusion from opportunity. 11:06:47Copy

🇪🇸Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• I've seen them treat millions of human beings like livestock and take away aid from those suffering the most from poverty and disease. 11:12:35Copy

🇨🇩Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• We are strengthening our domestic revenue and enhancing the quality of public spending, but A country facing war, epidemics, poverty, and climate shocks simultaneously cannot close this gap alone. 12:08:07Copy

🇮🇹Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• It is in this spirit and in defense of the right not to be forced to migrate that we fight against human traffickers who prey on poverty. 12:17:39Copy

🇺🇿Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• More than $150 billion in foreign investment has been attracted, exports have almost tripled, the poverty rate dropped to 4% and nearly 10 million people were lifted out of poverty. 12:34:25Copy

🇲🇬Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Madagascar advocates for a multilateral system that is not only capable of acting, but that is also capable of supporting member states in their efforts to break the cycles of poverty and insecurity. 49:53Copy

🇬🇭Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Central to our national reset is a revolutionary expansion of social protection, universal healthcare, delivering on the sustainable development goals, specifically SDG 1 on poverty, SDG 3 on good health and well-being, and SDG 10 on reduced inequalities. 1:21:26Copy

🇬🇾Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• An Indigenous woman coming from a small Indigenous village, defying the odds, the odds against Indigenous persons the odds against women, the odds against poverty, defining every challenge and rising to the top amidst those challenges. 2:12:05Copy

🇸🇴Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• The disruption has also contributed to an estimated 40% decline in our customs basic revenue, a critical resource of financing Somalia's economic reform, growth, and poverty reduction. 2:37:06Copy

🇧🇴Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• the homeland, a people that has gone through difficult times, a people that knows poverty, but also that knows the meaning of work, that knows division, but also knows how to recognize one another in unity, that has been through economic, political crises, social conflicts, and times of uncertainty. 3:18:07Copy

🇭🇺Hungary · András Bálint Baka · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Poverty and the lack of opportunity can drive people from their countries just as conflict can. 3:42:46Copy

🇬🇲Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Mr. President, for millions of people around the world, poverty, lack of human rights, democratic governance, et cetera, continue to pose greater insecurity. 4:39:10Copy

🇨🇴Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• That growth should lead to a job for a young person, a home for a family, timely access to medicines, harvest that finds a market and Colombians who, thanks to their own efforts and dedication, can escape poverty. 5:03:41Copy

🇵🇹Portugal · Luís Montenegro · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Protecting human dignity by combating poverty and safeguarding fundamental rights, food security, and the future of the new generations. 6:09:42Copy

🇨🇮Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• These threats also call for investment in conflict prevention and for addressing at an early stage the vulnerabilities that fuel crises, including poverty, inequality, youth unemployment, and all other forms of marginalization. 7:04:07Copy

🇳🇬Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Developing countries must industrialize, eradicate poverty, and expand energy access through low carbon pathways supported by technology transfer, capacity building, and climate finance. 7:18:17Copy

🇾🇪Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• 12 years marked by war, displacement, poverty, recruitment of children, terrorizing of women, laying of mines, confiscation of rights, freedoms, and public resources. 7:30:19Copy

🇧🇧Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• He saw the United Nations as having to put the eradication of poverty at the centre of its role. 8:43:53Copy

🇮🇪Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• It has driven advances in poverty alleviation, healthcare, education, social protection, and food and nutrition security. 11:12:00Copy

🇱🇧Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• It requires investment in preventing conflicts before they erupt and in development before poverty and deprivation become a source of violence, extremism, and terrorism. 1:24:15Copy

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• At a time when our world has confronted war, displacement, poverty, inequality, climate change, and many other challenges, He has consistently called for peace, human dignity, international cooperation, and respect for the principles of United Nations. 5:32:52Copy

🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau · Ilídio Vieira Té · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Enormous gaps persist in financing for development and climate action, alongside high levels of poverty and social inequality, and a growing and unsustainable debt burden on the economies of developing countries. 7:38:08Copy

🇪🇬Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Climate action must go hand in hand with development, poverty reduction and job creation. 7:56:27Copy

🇦🇿Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• In less than two decades, Azerbaijan's GDP has increased threefold, while the poverty rate has declined from 49% to around 5%. 9:59:26Copy

🇰🇿Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Humanitarian assistance remains indispensable, but it cannot by itself break the cycle of poverty, displacement, and dependency. 10:16:57Copy

🇨🇳China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• It is important to give priority to key areas, including poverty reduction, food security, and energy transition, step up resource input, and increase support for countries in the Global South. 24:26Copy

🇧🇿Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Multidimensional poverty stands at 19.1% and unemployment at 1.9%. 58:43Copy

🇻🇦Holy See · Cardinal Pietro Parolin · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Particular attention must to be paid to those categories of persons most at risk, those in the womb, the elderly, the disabled, the sick, refugees and migrants, the unemployed, the marginalized, the lonely, and those living under condition of extreme poverty, violence, or conflict. 1:47:34Copy

🇮🇸Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Conflicts, poverty, Poverty, drought, natural disasters, and the growing effects of climate change are pushing millions of people from their homes. 4:02:31Copy

🇸🇲San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Poverty, food, instability. 6:40:56Copy

🇨🇦Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• From Lebanon to Haiti to Gaza and elsewhere, We are supporting efforts to reduce poverty, to strengthen resilience, to promote gender equality, to defend the rights of LGBTQ2I persons and create economic opportunities. 7:53:15Copy

🇿🇲Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Mr. President, on sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda, Zambia takes note that the Sustainable Development Goals remain the most comprehensive expression of our shared ambition to eradicate poverty, also to reduce inequality and build a sustainable future. 8:49:33Copy

🇩🇿Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• nor can poverty and marginalization be effectively tackled in isolation from a security environment that enables terrorist groups and organized crime networks to expand and spread and take root. 1:39:02Copy

🇸🇻El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Let us not accept that war, poverty and violence are inevitable. 2:08:13Copy

🇱🇰Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• We remain steadfast in recognizing poverty and inequality as factors requiring our urgent attention. 2:44:14Copy